Namdhari and security officer Tyagi charged in Chadha shootout case

Sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief SS Namdhari and his personal security officer Sachin Tyagi have been charged with murder in the Chhatarpur farmhouse shootout case in which liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep Chadha were killed on November 17 last year.

Ponty too has been named as an accused in the charge-sheet.

The Delhi Police have booked 19 others for offences, including attempt to murder, dacoity, kidnapping, rioting and destruction of evidence among others, in their charge-sheet filed in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mukesh Kumar.